Production of Global Land Cover Data – GLCNMO2013

Production of global land cover data - GLCNMO

Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; College of Geographical Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, China; Geography Department, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt; School of Computer and Information Technology, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanba...

A comparative analysis of the Global Land Cover 2000 and MODIS land cover data sets

Accurate and up-to-date global land cover data sets are necessary for various global change research studies including climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem assessment, and environmental modeling. In recent years, substantial advancement has been achieved in generating such data products. Yet, we are far from producing geospatially consistent high-quality data at an operational l...

A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

Global land cover is an essential climate variable and a key biophysical driver for earth system models. While remote sensing technology, particularly satellites, have played a key role in providing land cover datasets, large discrepancies have been noted among the available products. Global land use is typically more difficult to map and in many cases cannot be remotely sensed. In-situ or grou...

Landspotting - Games for improving global land cover

Current satellite-derived land cover products, which are very important for answering many crucial questions, show huge disagreements. In this paper, we introduce four serious game prototypes – a Facebook strategy game played on Google Maps, a Facebook tagging game, a tower-defense game, and an aesthetic tile game for the iPad – with the purpose of improving global land cover data. We describe ...

Land-use, Land-cover Changes and Global Aggregate Impacts